The Lord Puts It Into D. S. Hollister's Heart to Fund L. O. Littlefield's Mission (1847)
Published October 4, 2026 at 6:15 AM
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Elder L. O. Littlefield, on a mission to Europe with documents from the Twelve, needed funds to return home. After expressing his lack of money, D. S. Hollister, who had just arrived from Philadelphia, felt inspired to give him ten dollars, enabling Littlefield to proceed with his mission.
Fuller account of this event (the complete account as preserved in Lyman O. Littlefield, Reminiscences of Latter-day Saints: Giving an Account of Much Individual Suffering Endured for Religious Conscience (Logan, UT: Utah Journal Company, 1888), 135.):
I had no money to pay my passage, and I felt a little anxious about it. Brother D. S. Hollister, who had just arrived from Philadelphia, came to me and said he felt impressed to give me ten dollars, which he did, and it was the very amount I needed to pay my passage.
In Their Own Words
“He came this evening, and said he had no money, when we told him, if he made up his mind to go, that the Lord would it into the heart of some person to furnish him, and before he left here, brother D. S. Hollister, who came from Philadelphia to-day, gave him ten dollars towards it, and now he says he will only work this week. — Millennial Star 9:18”
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 15 September 1847 (Vol. 9, No. 18). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1847-09-15_9_18 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high) Complete account: Lyman O. Littlefield, Reminiscences of Latter-day Saints: Giving an Account of Much Individual Suffering Endured for Religious Conscience (Logan, UT: Utah Journal Company, 1888), 135. https://archive.org/details/reminiscencesofl00litt/page/135/mode/2up
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